Could you attach the image? If it is of decent quality (probably not if it was in a .doc) perhaps you could round trip it back to vector format it with trace in InkScape. Then you could do whatever you want with it. If it's a musical score, you could probably just use the png as a temporary background template and redraw it in InkScape. I do that all the time. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Bruce Miller <subscribe [ at ] brmiller [ dot ] ca> wrote: > My questions to this list are not always directly "Linux technical." But I do > always appreciate the patience and helpfulness of participants on this list. > > The current challenge tells me that I have forgotten everything I ever knew > about graphics, and that was very little to begin with. I am not sure even what > terms to put into Google to begin looking. So, besides answering the direct > question, I would also say a big thank you to any reference to a good > introduction to graphics aimed at an absolute beginner. > > My fiancee and I wish to use a musical score as the faint background underneath > the text of our wedding invitations. If it is not misuse of a technical term, I > would characterize our goal as using the image as a "watermark." The invitations > themselves will be printed in colour on "invitation" stock (heavy paper / light > card). > > My fiancee, who is not Linux-literate, found a graphic of the score she wants to > use. I believe that what she originally found was a .jpg, but she saved it in a > .doc file. I have not succeeded in finding the original .jpg on the web, but > have extracted the image and saved it in both .jpg and .png formats. > > Because this is a graphical image of a musical score, it is literally "line > art," with 100% contrast between the black image and the white background. My > task is first to lower the contrast (saturation? - I wish I knew the > terminology ;-(. ) to the faintness of a watermark. The second task is to apply > the champagne (greenish gold) which we wish to use for the text itself. > > My gut feeling is that these two tasks are trivial, but I have blanked out on > where and how to learn to do them. Let's put it down to the stress of planning a > wedding. > > We will offer a "virtual piece of wedding cake" and many thanks to anyone with > the patience to help us past this task. > > With thanks in advance. > > Bruce Miller > -- > Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada > bruce [ at ] brmiller [ dot ] ca; (613) 745-1151 > > > In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. > attributed to Thomas Pickering, retired US diplomat, born 1931 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion.